Motivational Quotes

Life

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip